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NIST/NIBIB Medical Phantom Bibliography

Phantom Use

  • Solomon E, Lemberskiy G, Baete S, Hu K, Malyarenko D, Swanson S, Shukla-Dave A, Russek SE, Zan E, Kim SG. Time-dependent diffusivity and kurtosis in phantoms and patients with head and neck cancer. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2023;89(2):522-35. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.29457.
  • Yen Y-F, Stupic KF, Janicke MT, Greve DN, Mareyam A, Stockmann J, Polimeni JR, van der Kouwe A, Keenan KE. T1 relaxation time of ISMRM/NIST T1 phantom spheres at 7 T. NMR in Biomedicine. 2022;e4873. https://doi.org/10.1002/nbm.4873.
  • Carr ME, Keenan KE, Rai R, Boss MA, Metcalfe P, Walker A, Holloway L. Conformance of a 3T radiotherapy MRI scanner to the QIBA Diffusion Profile. Medical Physics. 2022;49(7):4508-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.15645.
  • Shridhar Konar A, Qian E, Geethanath S, Buonincontri G, Obuchowski NA, Fung M, Gomez P, Schulte R, Cencini M, Tosetti M, Schwartz LH, Shukla-Dave A. Quantitative imaging metrics derived from magnetic resonance fingerprinting using ISMRM/NIST MRI system phantom: An international multicenter repeatability and reproducibility study. Med Phys. 2021;48(5):2438-47. Epub 2021/03/11. doi: 10.1002/mp.14833. PubMed PMID: 33690905; PMCID: PMC9284672.
  • Rodríguez-Soto AE, Fang LK, Holland D, Zou J, Park HH, Keenan KE, Bartsch H, Kuperman J, Wallace AM, Hahn M, Ojeda-Fournier H, Dale AM, Rakow-Penner R. Correction of Artifacts Induced by B0 Inhomogeneities in Breast MRI Using Reduced-Field-of-View Echo-Planar Imaging and Enhanced Reversed Polarity Gradient Method. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2021;53(5):1581-91. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.27566.
  • Keenan KE, Gimbutas Z, Dienstfrey A, Stupic KF, Boss MA, Russek SE, Chenevert TL, Prasad PV, Guo J, Reddick WE, Cecil KM, Shukla-Dave A, Aramburu Nunez D, Shridhar Konar A, Liu MZ, Jambawalikar SR, Schwartz LH, Zheng J, Hu P, Jackson EF. Multi-site, multi-platform comparison of MRI T1 measurement using the system phantom. PLOS ONE. 2021;16(6):e0252966. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252966 .
  • Carr ME, Keenan KE, Rai R, Metcalfe P, Walker A, Holloway L. Determining the longitudinal accuracy and reproducibility of T(1) and T(2) in a 3T MRI scanner. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2021;22(11):143-50. Epub 2021/09/26. https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.13432 . PubMed PMID: 34562341; PMCID: PMC8598150.
  • Malyarenko DI, Swanson SD, Konar AS, LoCastro E, Paudyal R, Liu MZ, Jambawalikar SR, Schwartz LH, Shukla-Dave A, Chenevert TL. Multicenter Repeatability Study of a Novel Quantitative Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging Phantom. Tomography. 2019;5(1):36-43. Epub 2019/03/12. https://doi.org/10.18383/j.tom.2018.00030 . PubMed PMID: 30854440; PMCID: PMC6403043.
  • Keenan KE, Gimbutas Z, Dienstfrey A, Stupic KF. Assessing effects of scanner upgrades for clinical studies. Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI. 2019;50(6):1948-54. Epub 2019/05/22. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.26785 . PubMed PMID: 31111981.
  • Newitt DC, Malyarenko D, Chenevert TL, Quarles CC, Bell L, Fedorov A, Fennessy F, Jacobs MA, Solaiyappan M, Hectors S, Taouli B, Muzi M, Kinahan PE, Schmainda KM, Prah MA, Taber EN, Kroenke C, Huang W, Arlinghaus LR, Yankeelov TE, Cao Y, Aryal M, Yen YF, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Shukla-Dave A, Fung M, Liang J, Boss M, Hylton N. Multisite concordance of apparent diffusion coefficient measurements across the NCI Quantitative Imaging Network. J Med Imaging (Bellingham). 2018;5(1):011003. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.5.1.011003 . PubMed PMID: 29021993; PMCID: PMC5633866.
  • Bane O, Hectors SJ, Wagner M, Arlinghaus LL, Aryal MP, Cao Y, Chenevert TL, Fennessy F, Huang W, Hylton NM, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Keenan KE, Malyarenko DI, Mulkern RV, Newitt DC, Russek SE, Stupic KF, Tudorica A, Wilmes LJ, Yankeelov TE, Yen Y-F, Boss MA, Taouli B. Accuracy, repeatability, and interplatform reproducibility of T1 quantification methods used for DCE-MRI: Results from a multicenter phantom study. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2018;79(5):2564-75. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26903.
  • Palacios EM, Martin AJ, Boss MA, Ezekiel F, Chang YS, Yuh EL, Vassar MJ, Schnyer DM, MacDonald CL, Crawford KL, Irimia A, Toga AW, Mukherjee P, Investigators T-T. Toward Precision and Reproducibility of Diffusion Tensor Imaging: A Multicenter Diffusion Phantom and Traveling Volunteer Study. AJNR American journal of neuroradiology. 2017;38(3):537-45. https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A5025. PubMed PMID: 28007768; PMCID: PMC5352533.
  • Keenan KE, Peskin AP, Wilmes LJ, Aliu SO, Jones EF, Li W, Kornak J, Newitt DC, Hylton NM. Variability and bias assessment in breast ADC measurement across multiple systems. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2016;44(4):846-55, https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.25237.
  • Jiang Y, Ma D, Keenan KE, Stupic KF, Gulani V, Griswold MA. Repeatability of magnetic resonance fingerprinting T1 and T2 estimates assessed using the ISMRM/NIST MRI system phantom. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2016, https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26509.

Phantom Construction

  • Stupic KF, Ainslie M, Boss MA, Charles C, Dienstfrey AM, Evelhoch JL, Finn P, Gimbutas Z, Gunter JL, Hill DLG, Jack CR, Jackson EF, Karaulanov T, Keenan KE, Liu G, Martin MN, Prasad PV, Rentz NS, Yuan C, Russek SE. A standard system phantom for magnetic resonance imaging. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2021;86(3):1194-211. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28779 .
  • Keenan KE, Stupic KF, Russek SE, Mirowski E. MRI-visible liquid crystal thermometer. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2020;84(3):1552-63. Epub 2020/03/01. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28224. PubMed PMID: 32112464.
  • Mirowski E, Snow, Michael , Keenan, Kathryn, inventor; QALIBRE MD, INC. (Boulder, CO, US),NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (Gaithersburg, MD, US), assignee. Liquid Crystal Thermometer for MRI. United States 2019.
  • Keenan KE, Wilmes LJ, Aliu SO, Newitt DC, Jones EF, Boss MA, Stupic KF, Russek SE, Hylton NM. Design of a breast phantom for quantitative MRI. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2016;44(3):610-9, https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.25214.
  • Captur G, Gatehouse P, Keenan KE, Heslinga FG, Bruehl R, Prothmann M, Graves MJ, Eames RJ, Torlasco C, Benedetti G. A medical device-grade T1 and ECV phantom for global T1 mapping quality assurance—the T 1 Mapping and ECV Standardization in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (T1MES) program. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2016;18(1):58.
  • Baxi J, Calhoun W, Sepah YJ, Hammer DX, Ilev I, Pfefer TJ, Nguyen QD, Agrawal A. Retina-simulating phantom for optical coherence tomography. J Biomed Opt. 2014;19(2):21106. Epub 2013/09/18. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.19.2.021106. PubMed PMID: 24042445.

Whitepapers/ Reviews/ Metrology

  • Boss M, Keenan K, Stupic K, Rentz N, Coakley K, J. , Koepke A, Stoffer C, Russek S, E. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarker Calibration Service: NMR Measurement of Isotropic Water Diffusion Coefficient, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.250-100; PMCID: Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.
  • Russek SE, Stupic K, Keenan K. Metrology and Standards for Quantitative MRI. American Roentgen Ray Society InPractice. https://arrsinpractice.org/quantitative-mri-metrology-standards/
  • Russek SE, Stupic KF, Biller JR, Boss MA, Keenan KE, Mirowski E. Electromagnetics for Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Compendium on Electromagnetic Analysis: World Scientific; 2020. p. 95-147, https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813270268_0003.
  • Keenan KE, Ainslie M, Barker AJ, Boss MA, Cecil KM, Charles C, Chenevert TL, Clarke L, Evelhoch JL, Finn P, Gembris D, Gunter JL, Hill DLG, Jack CR, Jr., Jackson EF, Liu G, Russek SE, Sharma SD, Steckner M, Stupic KF, Trzasko JD, Yuan C, Zheng J. Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging phantoms: A review and the need for a system phantom. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2018;79(1):48-61. Epub 2017/10/31. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26982. PubMed PMID: 29083101.
  • Boss MA, Dienstfrey AM, Gimbutas Z, Keenan KE, Splett JD, Stupic KF, Russek SE. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarker Calibration Service: Proton Spin Relaxation Times, 2018; Special Publication (NIST SP) - 250-97 https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.250-97.
  • Clarke LP, Sriram RD, Schilling LB. Imaging as a biomarker - Standards for change measurements in therapy workshop summary. Acad Radiol. 2008;15(4):501-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2007.10.021. PubMed PMID: WOS:000254542600015.
Created February 14, 2023, Updated November 8, 2023